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Table 3 Distribution of Out-of-pocket Health Payments in Low-income Countries, World Health Survey, 2003

From: Medicines coverage and community-based health insurance in low-income countries

Out-of-pocket Health Payments

 

Medicines

Inpatient

Outpatient

Traditional

Others

 

%

%

%

%

%

Bangladesh

67.1

6.3

8.1

5.0

13.6

Burkina Faso

62.2

9.7

8.0

7.8

12.3

Chad

11.1

43.8

12.0

12.2

20.9

Comoros

47.6

16.9

15.6

3.0

16.9

Cote D'Ivoire

32.2

29.4

15.6

5.5

17.2

Ethiopia

43.3

16.8

24.6

2.3

13.0

Ghana

40.1

23.3

21.8

5.6

9.1

India

44.4

25.4

16.9

3.3

9.9

Kenya

31.0

32.8

17.1

1.5

17.5

Lao PDR

47.8

25.2

10.1

10.7

6.2

Malawi

48.1

15.9

27.1

4.4

4.4

Mali

30.8

23.3

20.2

9.9

15.8

Mauritania

31.0

22.4

12.1

3.6

30.9

Myanmar

47.8

11.9

26.6

5.2

8.4

Nepal

68.8

13.9

4.3

1.5

11.5

Pakistan

45.5

21.2

14.5

7.0

11.8

Senegal

31.5

24.8

13.8

12.9

17.0

Vietnam

37.0

27.2

21.9

5.0

8.9

Zambia

34.8

26.9

15.2

9.3

13.8

Zimbabwe

25.2

12.0

30.6

14.5

17.7

Median

41.7

22.9

15.6

5.4

13.3

25th percentile

31.4

15.4

12.1

3.5

9.7

75th percentile

47.7

25.8

21.8

9.5

17.1